Git Release Notes (Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309) Last update: 9 March 2010 Known issues - Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git shell. - The Logitec QuickCam software can cause spurious crashes. See "Why does make often crash creating a sh.exe.stackdump file when I try to compile my source code?" on the MinGW Wiki (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues) - The Quick Launch icon will only be installed for the user running setup (typically the Administrator). This is a technical restriction and will not change. - curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc. - If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have to start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle the path. git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80, 159). - If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first and accept the host key. - When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be "swallowed" from Git's output (Issue 192). - There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem not to be reproducible on most computers. - As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with "/" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226). Example: instead of "/base", say "//base". Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows programs Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX paths -- You can use something like $(cmd //c echo "$POSIXPATH"). Changes since Git-1.6.5.1-preview20091022 New Features - Comes with official Git 1.7.0.2. - Comes with Git-Cheetah (on 32-bit Windows only, for now). - Comes with connect.exe, a SOCKS proxy. - Tons of improvements in the installer, thanks to Sebastian Schuberth. - On Vista, if possible, symlinks are used for the built-ins. - Features Hany's dos2unix tool, thanks to Sebastian Schuberth. - Updated Tcl/Tk to version 8.5.8 (thanks Pat Thoyts!). - By default, only .git/ is hidden, to work around a bug in Eclipse (thanks to Erik Faye-Lund). Bugfixes - Fixed threaded grep (thanks to Heiko Voigt). - git gui was fixed for all kinds of worktree-related failures (thanks Pat Thoyts). - git gui now fully supports themed widgets (thanks Pat Thoyts and Heiko Voigt). - Git no longer complains about an unset RUNTIME_PREFIX (thanks Johannes Sixt). - git gui can Explore Working Copy on Windows again (thanks Markus Heidelberg). - git gui can create shortcuts again (fixes issue 425, thanks Heiko Voigt). - When "git checkout" cannot overwrite files because they are in use, it will offer to try again, giving the user a chance to release the file (thanks Heiko Voigt). - Ctrl+W will close gitk (thanks Jens Lehmann). - git gui no longer binds Ctrl+C, which caused problems when trying to use said shortcut for the clipboard operation "Copy" (fixes issue 423, thanks Pat Thoyts). - gitk does not give up when the command line length limit is reached (issue 387). - The exit code is fixed when Git.cmd is called from cmd.exe (thanks Alexey Borzenkov). - When launched via the (non-Cheetah) shell extension, the window icon is now correct (thanks Sebastian Schuberth). - Uses a TrueType font for the console, to be able to render UTF-8 correctly. - Clarified the installer's line ending options (issue 370). - Substantially speeded up startup time from cmd unless NO_FSTAB_THREAD is set (thanks Johannes Sixt). - Update msys-1.0.dll yet again, to handle quoted parameters better (thanks Heiko Voigt). - Updated cURL to a version that supports SSPI. - Updated tar to handle the pax headers generated by git archive. - Updated sed to a version that can handle the filter-branch examples. - .git* files can be associated with the default text editor (issue 397). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html